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The Bunbury celebrity cricket team Vs The Harry the Fish XI Sunday June 14th at Ragley Hall!

Lady Hertford, the Bunbury Bunny and Harry the fish outside Ragley Hall Promoting the Greatest Celebrity cricket day in the midlands!

Welcome!

Thank you Everyone for all your support!Photos will be up soon!best wishesHARRY THE FISH

Jasper Carrot, legendary comedian, wishes us the best of Luck for the charity day

World record

Congratulations Ian who ran more than two miles to break the world record on Sunday!

Many thanks to Mercian Events Worcester for all there help on the day

Bafta Award winning Actor David Bradley to be attending the day

Legendary film actor Dr David Bradley, whose TV and film career spans over 4 decades will be attending on the day.David has starred in such shows as Game of thrones where he starred as Walder Frey, Doctor Who in TV film an adventure in time and space, a biography about The doctors first 5 years on TV and with David starring as William Hartnell.He has appeared in al 7 Harry Potter films as Filtch the caretaker of Hogwarts.David also has lots of stage credits to his name, being a member of the RSC, playing King Lear.Other stage roles include the Homecoming and the Caretaker written by Howard Pinter.Other Roles include Our Friends in the North, the way we live now, Taggart, Hot Fuzz, The Tudors, Bad Education, Captain America, Harry Brown where he starred with Michael caine and Many More

David Bradley in Game of thrones as Walder Frey

David Bradley as Filtch in Harry Potter

Former ARSENAL legends striker Perry groves , Paul Davis and Paul Merson to be in ATTENDANCE on the day

Perry Played for Arsenal for 6 seasons, afterwards moving to Southampton. He made 155 appearances for the club winning the League cup in his first season.He has also won the first divison twice.A constant hard worker, Perry became a fan favourite at the club

Paul Davis is a midfielder who played for Arsenal over a 17 year career and played for the club 447 times.He has won the first division, the league cup,community shield and the European cup winners cup.He was in the team that won the cup double in 1993.He was former youth team coach for the club, and is currently a member of the PFA(players football association)These two players are the best two Arsenal players who have never been picked for England

Perry groves goals

Paul Davis Goals

Probably the biggest character in football management, Barry Fry, he lead Birmingham to two titles, the second Division and the Football league trophy and also lead Birmingham to the semi finals of the league cup.His time at Birmingham was some of the most memorable times for the club, he has also been the chairman of Peterborough football club and is currently director of Football for the club.Come and Meet Barry, see more information Below

Donations In aid of

Registered Charity Number: 216 032

Leukaemia and Lymphoma are types of Blood Cancer. 38,000 people a year are diagnosed with the disease; it is the biggest form of cancer for children.Thanks to your donations over 68% that have been diagnosed with the disease survive.the charity is currently trying to help bring further awareness of the disease, including research, which is shown by the fact 9 out of 10 children survive the disease thanks to there tireless efforts.

The Bunbury England Under 15 school crickets festivalThis year being held at malvern CollegeBelow, Dr David English Talks about the festival and its importance to cricket

Congratulations Karl!

A huge shout out for Karl Mould age 24, who finished the Shakespeare stratford Half marathon in a time of 1 hour 51 minutes.We are all proud of Karls achievement, and we would all like to wish him a huge thank you for all his hard work and effortAll money donated will go towards Leukaemia charities and the Bunbury England under 15 school cricket festival which this year is being held at Malvern collegeA final total will be announced soon!Thankyou for all your kind donations for running for the bunburys!A huge thank you to our sponsors space graphic solutions for the design of the T Shirt!

Barry Gibb guitar set to headline charity auction!

A signed Barry Gibb Guitar donated by my friend and Bunbury Founder Dr David English CBE MBE is set to be the star lot in the biggest celebrity charity cricket day in the midlands!Thankyou Dr David EnglishBee Gees key facts

Founded in 1958, the bee gees career has spanned over 6 decades

They have sold over 250 million records

The group are renowned for there harmonies and have had hits like 'staying alive','Lonely days' 'words' and' you should be dancing'

Barry Gibb, John Lennon and Paul McCartney are the most sucessful song writers of all time

Massachusetts was there first U.K number 1 single,In america they would go on to have 9 us number 1 singles including 3 hit singles in the top 5 at the same time

They have won 9 grammy awards including the lifetime achievement award and are a part of the rock and roll hall of fame

Saturday Night fever,the sound of Disco, had songs in it wriiten and sung by the Bee gees and the album has the biggest album sales ever

RSO Was the bee Gee Record Label, under RSO records, managed by my good friend David English, it became the biggest record company at the time with 9 Number 1 singles in a calender year

Other than the Beatles, the Bee Gees are the most sucessful group of all time!

Funds raised for the Guitar go towards

Confirmed Guests!

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Jeff thomson- The FASTEST bowler of all time and australian cricket legend will be in ATTENDANCE on the day

Jeff thomson, more commonly known as 'tommo' is one of the most feared bowlers of all time, bowling balls up to 180 kmh/ph at a time, Sir Viv Richards has said that Thompson is the best bowler he ever played against, he has also gained the respect of his fellow pace bowlers with the likes of Allan Donald and Devon Malcom both quoting there has not been another bowler like thomson.Thomson famously took 33 wickets in the 1974-75 ashes series, his famous run up is a homage to his time being a javelin thrower.He is also a distinguished batsman hitting 49 from 67 balls, and in the following innings taking 5 wickets to win the match for Australia.In one day competition on of his most famous matches was against south Australia, where he took 6 wickets for only 18 runs and won man of the match He has took over 200 test wickets in his illustrious career, and has took over a 1000 wickets in all forms of cricketwe are absolutely delighted to be welcoming the world fastest cricketer to Alcester and Ragley park cricket club on Sunday June the 14th

Blind Dave Heeley to be attending the charity day as a special guest!

Dave heeley has raised thousands for charity from doing 7 marathons in 7 days, to cycling over 700 miles in 7 countries Dave has done it all.From being a honorary dr, to being a part of the opening ceremony at the paralympic games to winning bbc sports personality.We are absolutely delighted to say that Dave will be at Ragley on Sunday June the 14th 2015Many congratulations to Blind Dave, who has just finished in the past month the Marathon de sable and the London marathon for charity.Keep up the fantastic work blind Dave!

Nick Owen

Writer, Broadcaster, radio personality and presenter of Good morning Britain and Midlands today

The face of breakfast television, Nick hosted TV AM, and good morning with Anne and Nick; The couple have hosted over a thousand programmes together.Nick has always been involved with sport, he is current chairman of Luton Town football club, and past president of Derbyshire cricket club.Nick has always had a love for all things midlands he has been a part of Birmingham radio, and has written articles for the Birmingham post.He was also ITVs main sport presenter for six years, hosting midweek sports special along with the game show sporting triangles.He is currently the presenter of midlands today, and was made a honorary doctor by the university of Worcester in 2013This year he will be doing a tour talking about his remarkable life.

Paul Merson

Sky sports pundit, former Arsenal, aston villa and England player player

Paul merson, also known as the 'magic man', is a midfielder/forward that was part of the two time Arsenal league winning side. He has also won the fa cup, the league cup, the uefa cup winners cup and the FA community shield.He played 423 times for Arsenal scoring 99 times for ArsenalHis time at Arsenal got him picked by the England selectors; where he played 21 times, scoring on 3 occasionsHe has also played for Middlesbrough, Aston Villa where he was part of the 2000 F.A cup final, and Portsmouth;.He was also manger of Walsall for two seasonsPaul currently is a commentator on Gilette soccer special, where he commentates alongside John solako, who will also be attending on the day

Mick Harford

Mick Hartford is a former England striker who played for the likes of Birmingham city, Newcastle united, Derby county, Chelsea and Sunderland.After his playing career finished, he became a manager and famously managed his former team Luton, to the Johnston paint trophy.He is currently head of recruitmen at Millwall football club.In his career he scored 186 goals, and as a player he won the League cup for Luton

Ryan Sidebottom

One of Englands Most prolific bowlers, Sidebottom took 131 wickets for England famously taking a hat trick against New Zealand .He is currently playing for Yorkshire and we are absolutely delighted that he is coming to the cricket day on sunday June the 14th

David Smith

David smith is an opening batsman that has played for England, Surrey, Sussex and Worcestershire; he top scored in Englands tour of the west Indies.One of the highlights of his career is the 1993 Natwest Trophy where he went on to score 124 against Warwickshire.His highest score being 213 he scored 28 test centuries and 76 half centuries

Tom milnes

22 year old Warwickshire all rounder and was one of the stars of the 2012 county championship winning team.He famously took 7 wickets for 39 runs against Oxford

Gary Shaw

Garry Shaw is a former Aston Villa striker who famously won the champions league or European Cup in 1981.He played seven times for England under 21s and scored 79 goals for the Villa in his career.He was voted PFA young player of the Year and European player of the year

John solako

John solako was a former England and Crystal Palace midfielder who famously played in the 1990 FA cup final,He has also played for Coventry , Bolton Wanders, Fulham and Charlton.Renowned for his charity work, he is cycling the Tour de France route to raise money for LeukaemiaYou can currently hear John do punditry on Gillette soccer special on Sky sports

Gavin Haynes

Gavin Haynes is a Worcestershire cricketer and coach who scored over 4,000 runs for his county in test cricket and over 2,000 runs in the one day format

Neal Radford

Neal Radford is a former worcester lancashire,Hereford and England Fast Bowler he took over 101 wickets in a season and has been named wiseden cricket of the year.he has taken over 1,400 wickets in his career

Oliver Phelps/ James phelps

Oliver is one half of the weasley twins form the film series Harry potter. other acting credits include Kingdom with Steven Fry and the Da Vinci code with Tom Hanks.They are both keen fund raisers, love there sport and are absolutely delighted to be coming on the day!

Rupert Young

Rupert is a TV and stage star who has appeared in the likes of such shows as Doc Martin, Heartbeat and Foyles War.He also portrays sir Leon in the Hit TV show Merlin

Tim Curtis

Tim curtis is former Worcestershire Captain and England opening Batsman who lead Worcester to victory against Warwickshire at the 1994 Natwest trophy final at Lords cricket ground.He is one of two players to have scored over 10,000 test runs for his countyCurtis was at one point head of the Professional crickets association

Chris Whelan

Chris is a former middlesex and Worcestershire Bowler who in one of his most famous games bowled against the New Zealand cricketers, where he took 4 wickets.He took his first hat trick at 16 and in the 20/20 game he took 4 wickets against Derbyshire

Martin Weston

Martin is a former Worcestershire cricket player who had a 16 year career with the club.His highest score being 145, he has also took 200 wickets as a bowler

Stuart Lampitt

Stuart Lampitt is an all rounder who played for Worcestershire and scored nearly 6,000 runs for his county. He also took over 600 wickets and has the record for one day wickets of which he took 370 He won the William younger cup and is now a cricket development officer at Worcester

Darren cousins

Darren is an all rounder who used to play for Essex, Northamptonshire, Surrey and Cambridge.His best bowling figures in one day cricket was when he took 5/22 and has scored over 700 runs in his career along with taking over 270 wickets.

Dr David English CBE MBE

Leader of the Bunburys and former head of RSO records; David has been manager of the Bee Gees and Eric Clapton and has had a massive effect on the game of English cricket, he has raised over £17 million for charity and his Bunbury under 15 schools cricket festival has so far helped 62 England Cricketers to go on to play for there country.and we are absolutely delighted to be welcoming him and his Bunbury team to Alcester and Ragley Park cricket club on June 14th.﻿David English, the life and soul of English cricket!﻿Read more about his remarkable life in the background section by pressing this button

Dr David English CBE says of the Day " in our 29th year, the Bunbury's cant wait to come to Ragley Hall to take on the might of the marvellous "Harry the Fish XI" "Pleanty of Sole in the right plaice!"

Dr David English CBE says of the Day " in our 29th year, the Bunbury's cant wait to come to Ragley Hall to take on the might of the marvellous "Harry the Fish XI" "Pleanty of Sole in the right plaice!"

Dr David english CBE MBE and Harry The fish

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Welcome THANK YOU for visiting

Hello and welcome to the biggest cricket day the midlands have ever held! The Harry the fish XI VS The world Famous Bunburys; The Bunburys of which has been going over 28 years and has raised £17 million for charity. We are so proud to be having them at Ragley hall Cricket club this Year.Come along, bring all your friends, bring all your family as this sure will be a day to remember and a day which you cannot miss out on; with famous faces from TV, Film so come and bring your autograph books.All in all thank you for your support keep on giving and I look forward to seeing you all on June the 14!!!!!All The bestHarry the fishx

Bunbury Cricket club RecordPlayed 642 MatchesMatches won 635matches Lost 7

Gary sweet Australian TV and Film Star says:"This will be a wonderful day both on and off the field"

Mike whitney Tv personality and former Australian fast bowler says of the day"it is a wonderful thing that you are doing Harry, i am very proud of you!"

The 9th Marchioness of Hertford, Harry the fish and the Bunbury Mascot the Bunbury bunny outside Ragley Hall with the first of the banners to be produced for the day!

Many thanks goes to John and Sue Jenkinson of the Evesham Hotel for there kind donation of Silver and Bronze 1970 Esso England Coins for the Charity auction!